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Steve Morse and Paul Gilbert were special guests of Ernie Ball stand at the NAMM earlier this year. We had previously posted a couple of tracks from their performance, but there was another one. And it is a spectacular jam over a tune that was written and recorded in the bad old days, but only became a live improvisation vehicle during Steve’s tenure with the band — Pictures of Home.
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A lengthy (over an hour) and thus very interesting chat with Steve Morse, courtesy of Sea of Tranquility. Dig in!
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Paicey posted a video of him playing with the Buddy Rich Orchestra at the Ronnie Scott’s Club in London last year. Watch out for the quick recovery at 10:52 — blink and you’ll miss it.
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In Rock is a new addition to the LickLibrary stable of instructional videos.
In this course, LickLibrary veteran, Danny Gill walks you through the many highlights of each song from this classic rock gem one phrase at a time, including all of Ritchie Blackmore’s legendary guitar parts from the tracks; “Black Night,” “Speed King,” and the anthemic, “Child In Time.”
One can order it for €29.99 from their website.
Thanks to BraveWords for the info.
The Dead Daisies are scheduled to appear in a charity concert tonight, July 3, at 8pm EST (repeated at 11pm EST). Also on the bill: Alice Cooper, Peter Frampton, Joe Satriani, Corey Taylor, Don Felder, George Thorogood, Myles Kennedy, Lizzy Hale & Joe Hottinger of Halestorm, and many others. The event is taking place online and you can watch it at rockforrelief.net or youtube. All donations will go towards Feeding America foundation fighting domestic hunger in the USA.
Thanks to BraveWords for the info.
Paicey publishes another drumcam track — I Got Your Number from Bananas sessions.
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The mysterious single released for the Record Store Day in Germany on June 20th turned out to be interesting for two reasons.
First, besides the already familiar tracks Throw My Bones and Man Alive it contains a new one from the upcoming album — The Power of the Moon. The single is available now through selected retailers in Germany and will be released in the UK and Scandinavia on July 17, 2020. The rest of us will have to wait for the album to come out on August 7.
Second, the single sleeve oh-so-matter-of-factly states in the back that the band is now managed by one Matt Clark of SIRCL Ltd., with no mention of Bruce Payne or Thames Talent to be found.
Quick googling shows that SIRCL was incorporated in October 2019 with the address of an accountant firm in Milton Keynes, UK. Another related company — Deep Purple Live Limited was set up to manage music publishing, with five members of the band as shareholders plus Mr. Clark as the director. Thames Talent office in Connecticut is now marked on Google maps as ‘Permanently closed’.
If there was an official announcement of a second change of management in the band’s 52 year long history, we have definitely missed it.
Thanks to Lutz Reinert and andreas leutgeb for the info.
David Coverdale is keeping himself busy these days by fluffing the duvets and doing interviews promoting various Whitesnake compilations.
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Flying Colors may play only a handful of gigs after each album, but they still manage to release one of them as a live recording. The new installment in this lifecycle is called Third Stage: Live in London and is due on September 18, 2020, via Music Theories Recordings.
Third Stage: Live In London was filmed during their 2019 US and European tour and the footage captures the exhilarating sold-out final night, on the December 14 at the iconic Grade II Listed, Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London. The album will be released on several formats including, orange transparent 3LP, Blu-ray, digitally, 2CD/DVD and a 40-page Earbook which includes 5 discs; 2CD album, 2DVDs and a Blu-ray. The Blu-ray and DVDs in the Earbook also include bonus material of music videos and concert footage of their Morsefest 2019 performance in Cross Plains, Tennessee.
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On the same date, September 18, the first two albums — Flying Colors and Second Nature — will be reissued on light blue 2LP, both limited to 1000 units.
Thanks to BraveWords for the info.
There is a terrific cover band out in Italy which also happens to be an all-girl band. They are fittingly called Strange Kind of Women.
Ian Paice did a guest gig with them in March 2019 and now is giving them a shoutout on his DrumTribe channel:
Strange Kind of Women are:
Alteria – vocals
Eliana Cargneluttie – guitars
Paola Zadra – bass
Margherita Gruden – keyboards
Paola Caridi – drums
Check out their complete show from July 20th 2019 at Haus Eifgen Wermelskirchen in Germany streaming here. And support the musicians.
Thanks to andreas leutgeb for the heads up. Photo: Aleksandra Pruenner.
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